Associate Counsel - Commercial Transactions

About This Role

The Associate Counsel – Commercial Transactions will serve as the subject matter expert on vendor transactions and procurement activities, negotiating contracts and analyzing risks. This role also supports customer commercial transactions and contributes to legal process improvements for the procurement lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Act as the principal legal support for vendor contracts by reviewing and negotiating vendor contracts.
• Communicate deadlines, requirements, and partner to address contract-related issues with procurement, risk management, security, IT and privacy teams.
• Manage legal queue of contracts for review and stakeholder/vendor communications with the procurement team.
• Engage with other legal team members and vendor counsel in negotiations for various transaction types including SAAS software, event contracts, and professional services.
• Suggest and work on improvements in processes, including collaborating with the procurement team on procure-to-contract tools, managing legal contracts in a CLM tool, and creating efficiencies in contracting using genAI tools.
• Quickly review or prepare a variety of agreements, providing focused, value-adding comments on key issues for both vendor and customer agreements.
• Assist in the administration of the internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and respond to/triage questions.
• Support the Legal and Legal Operations teams with projects, including customer commercial deals, process improvements, and updating forms.

Requirements

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor)
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, and excellent communications skills
• Reasonable exposure to computer and software technology concepts
• Solid proficiency with MS Office and Salesforce
• Experience negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, consulting and professional services, sponsorship agreements, general services contracts, on-prem software contracts, equipment and supply contracts, statements of work, and purchase orders
• Experience working with procurement, internal stakeholders and business teams, negotiating contractual legal terms, and identifying and assessing contractual risks and impacts

Qualifications

• Legal degree (licensed attorney-at-law or admitted solicitor) with good grades from a good school.
• Three or more years of high-quality relevant experience as part of a legal team.

Nice to Have

• Background in information technology or procuring information technology
• Experience working as a litigator or part of a litigation team
• Experience working with contract management systems

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits